Trading and machine learning

Hi,

this is a discussion thread concerning machine learning and how it will shape the future of trading for profits.

Having read what scientists are currently working on (creating brain-like chips) and reinventing machine learning software, I think this can go both ways - either we have a highly efficient market, or we will have more frequent flash-crashes, such as with the more recent primitive algorithms.

However, I think the better these artificial intelligences get and the more computer power is readily available, human traders will find it impossible to stand a chance against those machines in the long-term. I now just imagine D-Wave's quantum computer being used for such a task with 2,000 Qubits, that makes 10^2000 scenarios that this computer could analyze simultaneously (more scenarios than there are atoms in the known universe). How could one compete against that?

what do you guys think?

If this so called AI's can work to our benefit then no problem, but one thing is for sure; Machine would always be machine. They can just malfunction sometimes and leave you stressed out.

who can code it /

Maybe to clarify - such supercomputers cost 10s to 100s of millions of dollars. If they benefit anybody, then the really big players (at least in the beginning). I don't think that machine will always only be a machine. Give it a couple of decades, then you will see the first human level machine intelligence running around.

I imagine that the hordes of programmers as goldman are able to write code for a quantum computer. If not them, then google or apple can do it.